HAR­CON Na­tion­al Youth Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and En­vi­ron­ment So­cial and Gov­er­nance es­say Part 2

Med­corp Ltd, one of T&T’s largest pri­vate health­care providers, is seek­ing to be­come the fourth small and medi­um-sized en­ter­prise (SME) to be list­ed on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Stock Ex­change (TTSE) by is­su­ing an ini­tial pub­lic of­fer­ing (IPO) of 350,000 shares at a price of $48 per share.

For the week, some 399,299 shares trad­ed on the First Tier Mar­ket, a de­crease of 77.14 per cent on the pre­vi­ous week’s to­tal of 1,746,516 shares cross­ing the floor.

Over 100 pa­tients from T&T, in­clud­ing chil­dren have ben­e­fit­ted from the med­ical tech­nol­o­gy and case-by-case pay­ment plans that are be­ing of­fered by the Apol­lo Hos­pi­tals, which is based in In­dia.

The ANSA McAL group is hop­ing that share­hold­ers rein­vest their div­i­dends back in­to the com­pa­ny, which can amount to just about TT$1 bil­lion.

While Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has made a call for ac­cel­er­at­ed leg­isla­tive ac­tion on Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (AI), man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of ACE Strate­gic So­lu­tions Ltd, Ri­car­do Fras­er wants the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty and the pub­lic in gen­er­al to look at the pros and cons of AI’s im­pact.

The To­ba­go Tourism Agency Ltd (TTAL) has paid out over 1 mil­lion dol­lars to 16 tourist ac­com­mo­da­tion prop­er­ties across the is­land in a bid the bol­ster the is­land's tourism prod­uct.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Roodal Mooni­lal has said news that first gas has been de­liv­ered from the Men­to de­vel­op­ment is wel­comed.

Trinidad Ce­ment Lim­it­ed (TCL) has amend­ed its loan agree­ments with Citibank and Sco­tia­bank for the third time.

Se­nior part­ner at HAR­CON Con­sult­ing, Sher­ry Ann Joseph is hop­ing that leg­is­la­tion is up­dat­ed to en­sure that the con­tin­ued growth and rel­e­vance of the cred­it union sec­tor.

Top of­fi­cials at the Eu­ro­pean Union’s ex­ec­u­tive com­mis­sion says they’re push­ing hard for a trade deal with the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion to avoid a 50 per cent tar­iff on im­port­ed goods. Trump had threat­ened to im­pose the tar­iffs on June 1, but has pushed back the dead­line to Ju­ly 9, re­peat­ing an oft-used tac­tic in his trade war.

The for­mer own­ers of AS Bry­den & Sons Hold­ings Ltd are seek­ing to raise over US$10.76 mil­lion from the sale of their pref­er­ence shares on the Ja­maica Stock Ex­change (JSE).